Sunday, May 15, 2016

Had fun on Saturday in the Heartfelt Creations By the Sea class held at Class Act in Oshawa

The album turned out really well - was fun learning new things -been over 12 years I have played with scrap booking and cards - such new things to learn - creating and using pull outs and creating the 3d flowers and effects on the cover was fun - learning to use finger daubers and inking pages - was totally fun - going to do another class next month - the class was extremely reasonable $75 - it included all the paper/album and pieces which if purchased would be about 67.00 the class was 5 hours - it was great ! not only that I won the door prize of some stamps I wanted (value about 29.00) so over all a fantastic time - and I love the album I made

Monday, May 9, 2016

I put a kiln load on Satruday morning - and used my ceramic plates for patterns
I had one bottle roll off the skulls ( but I put pieces under the edge of the mat so they cant roll to edge - another sort of shifted and the flat sheet was fine
The nutcracker below was one of the plates I made for fusing patterns onto the bottles - worked great but it rolled a bit

needs cleaning but the image is crisp and clear (a bit offset but it worked )

I did another load on Sunday - but used flat sided bottles so they would stay on the ceramic mold -

Probably would have perfered a larger clear bottle so I could get all the skulls on the plate onto the clear portion of the bottle - but it worked

These plates are make from rubber stamps into the clay and then I bisque fired them -

all in all a good test

but for my future plates I am making a base neck holder so they cant roll ! and will stay positioned

On staturday also had fun with my grand daughter - making hand puppets

I modified to simplify from a video on You tube but these were fun to make

Thursday, May 5, 2016

I almost thought this may happen as the enamels are a bit touchy over a certain temp - but my Grey Goose bottle faded in the slump

I like the heal of the bottle more slumped so I go to 1465 - what I should have done was do this bottle separate in the small kiln and only go to about 1425 like I did the other enamel bottle that turned out great

so it washed out and was burning off so I only got the white sort of background showing

I could add some black back onto it and fire it with my own enamels - which I just may do as an experiment